Dandelions in the Concrete: An Evening for Building Communal Support, Care
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
In conjunction with the DePaul Art Museum and their exhibit – Selva Aparacio–In Memory of, the DePaul Women’s Center is offering an evening to gather with community to support incarcerated survivors (with Love & Protect), to write poetry together (with Rise!), and to create art visualizing communities of support, resilience, and resistance.
Love & Protect is a Chicago-based group that supports those who identify as women and gender non-conforming persons of color who are criminalized or harmed by state and interpersonal violence. Through love, we work towards healing and transformation with these individuals and their families. Through resistance, we seek to protect their right to defend themselves. Through love, through resistance, we protect!
Rise (they/them) is a queer, Black, genderfluid, disabled writer, poet, and artist living on Potawatomi, Objiwe and Odawa territory (Chicago). They write to create home, embrace rage and love and further their commitment to their imagination. Imagination to directly say what needs to be said when the actual story is too hard to tell. Rise is deeply invested in disability justice, access, centering wellness for Black queer folk, trauma education, and rest. They enjoy doing the most, daydreaming and hanging with their support pup, Jelly Ferocious.
Organized by the Women’s Center with the DePaul Art Museum, the Center for Black Diaspora, the Healing Justice Dialogue Series, the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program, and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
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